{"product_id":"religion-and-politics-in-the-contemporary-united-states-a-special-issue-of-american-quarterly-9780801888687","title":"Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes essays from a issue of \"American Quarterly\" that explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways that religion matters in contemporary public life. This work offers a conversation between scholars in American studies and religious studies. It explores numerous modes through which religious faith has mobilized political action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGriffith and McAlister offer a superb historiographical overview of trends in both religious studies and American studies-their discussion of religious studies within the academy is especially insightful. -- Andrew Preston Journal of American Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Is the Public Square Still Naked?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Engaging State Power\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. \"Favoritism Cannot Be Tolerated\": Challenging Protestantism in America's Public Schools and Promoting the Neutral State\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Selling American Diversity and Muslim American Identity through Nonprofit Advertising Post-9\/11\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. \"The ERA Is a Moral Issue\": The Mormon Church, LDS Women, and the Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Hot Damned America: Evangelicalism and the Climate Change Policy Debate\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Catholics, Democrats, and the GOP in Contemporary America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Politics of the Global\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics: Black Muslims in the Era of the Arab Cold War\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. \"As Americans Against Genocide\": The Crisis in Darfur and Interreligious Political Activism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. From Exodus to Exile: Black Pentecostals, Migrating Pilgrims, and Imagined Internationalism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Who Speaks for Indian Americans? Religion, Ethnicity, and Political Formation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Leaders and Activists \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Benjamin Mays, Global Ecumenism, and Local Religious Segregation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Impossible Assimilations, American Liberalism, and Jewish Difference: Revisiting Jewish Secularism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. An Exception to Exceptionalism: A Reflection on Reinhold Niebuhr's Vision of \"Prophetic\" Christianity and the Problem of Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Cesar Chavez in American Religious Politics: Mapping the New Global Spiritual Line\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Ties That Bind and Divisions That Persist: Evangelical Faith and the Political Spectrum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Media and Performance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. \"Signaling Through the Flames\": Hell House Performance and Structures of Religious Feeling\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Critical Faith: Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. Back to the Future: Religion, Politics, and the Media\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. Testimonial Politics: The Christian Right's Faith-Based Approach to Marriage and Imprisonment\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. \"It Will Change the World If Everybody Reads This Book\": New Thought Religion in Oprah's Book Club\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405205807447,"sku":"9780801888687","price":25.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801888687.jpg?v=1730489105","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/religion-and-politics-in-the-contemporary-united-states-a-special-issue-of-american-quarterly-9780801888687","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}